ScreamingEagle
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A conservative niece? Is the best ya got?
How bout his son?
PolitiFact Tennessee | Another Republican claims that Martin Luther King Jr. was part of the GOP
However, in a 2008 Associated Press story, Kings son and namesake Martin Luther King III said:"It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states."
perhaps there is some self-interest involved in their opinions.....?
MLK started in a Republican family and became a Christian minister.....the Republicans were the most aligned with Civil Rights earlier on.....MLK was an admirer of Ghadi ....
over time things changed and civil rights issues became muddier.....MLK criticized both parties.....the Republicans stood for states rights and the Democrats were opportunistic....
...but as i mentioned before i believe MLK's politics evolved into socialism/communism...
And that's the bottom line
Conservatives of the day called Martin Luther King a race baiter and a communist
Now they claim him as their own
with regard to the Civil Rights issue...he is....